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Andean Group - May 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)
SECURITY: Existence of internal conflict recognised
Of late, President Juan Manuel Santos and his predecessor, Alvaro
Uribe (2002-2010), appear to clash each time Santos pushes forward his own
initiatives, especially when these appear to contravene long-held theories of
Uribismo. The problem for Uribistas is, however, that Santos
is a man of his own and he will not budge under pressure from the more
conservative elements of his ruling coalition, suggesting that these
confrontations are set to become a permanent fixture of the current
administration. Two issues in particularly are likely to provoke these clashes:
the law of victims, hailed by the Santos government as its flagship legislation
and the Democratic Security Policy (DSP) of the previous administration which
the latter considers to be its long lasting legacy to Colombian
democracy.
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